BOEING CORRIDOR

This is one of those RWAs where the address by itself doesn't tell the story. 1600 East Valley Rd., Renton, Washington 98057 sits inside one of the most important aerospace manufacturing corridors in American history—the Renton aerospace complex associated with Boeing and the industrial ecosystem that helped build the modern commercial aviation industry. Renton is widely known as the production center of the Boeing 737 program, the most-produced commercial jet family in aviation history. More than 14,500 commercial aircraft have been built at Boeing's Renton facilities, and the site's aviation roots extend back to World War II. For the archive, the significance is not simply the parcel. The significance is the corridor. Renton is one of the few locations on Earth that can legitimately claim to have shaped global air transportation. The Boeing 707, 727, 737, and 757 programs all trace major manufacturing history to Renton, and the city remains synonymous with commercial aircraft production. The Boeing 737 alone transformed global aviation and became the most-produced large commercial jet in history.